Kazakhstan - Newspaper editor finally released after completing three-year jail term

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders is thankful that Ramazan Esergepov, the editor of the weekly Alma- Ata Info, was finally released today, one day after completing a three-year sentence on a charge of collecting and disseminating classified information. “We are very relieved that Esergepov is back with his family but he was not freed until he completed a sentence he should never have served,” Reporters Without Borders said. “The rejection of all his requests for early release on parole and the final (...)

Read complete article

~	Al Ahly and Esperance highlight the dominance of North Africa in club football. Lessons for other African teams

~	Sri Lanka: Fifteen years after the end of war, victims still await justice at Mullivaikkal

~	South African communities vs Shell: high court victories show that cultural beliefs and practices count in climate cases

~	Why the New Yorker blocked UK website readers from its Lucy Letby story – an expert explains

~	How a British military march became the distinctive sound of American graduations

~	UN rights office urges Sri Lanka to reveal fate of the disappeared

~	World Should Rally to Halt Unfolding Atrocities in Darfur

~	It’s a mistake to dismiss Bridgerton as fluffy period drama

~	How newborn chicks are helping to settle a centuries-old debate about cognition and our senses

~	Extreme heatwaves in south and south-east Asia are a sign of things to come